[deport]

Trump is the bigger man, that is why he was allowed back on stage. But I think
they knew what he would do, so they provided him with the rope to hang himself.

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Apparently Trump knew exactly what Cruz was going to do and allowed him to do it.

snip

Cruz told Trump in a phone conversation two days ago that he would not endorse
him during his speech, according to Cruz aide Jason Johnson.

Still, Trump’s campaign invited Cruz to speak — in a headliner role, no less......

In a late night tweet, Trump said he had seen Cruz’s speech two hours before he
took the stage but let him speak anyway. “No big deal!” Trump wrote

http://www.chron.com/news/politics/article/In-a-bumpy-coronation-Trump-wins-the-crown-8396547.php

another thread:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3451418/posts?page=248#248

[Guenevere]

‘According to his aid Jason Johnson’

And I’m suppose to believe the word of Lyin Ted’s aid?

[Robert DeLong]

Thanks. Confirmation of my suspicions. I honestly had no idea if I was correct or just whistling in the wind, because I hadn't seen anything on it.

I honestly think Trump knew even before he ever extended the offer to speak as a headline speaker, that Cruz would be divisive somehow in his speech.

I think he calculated what the result would be.

If Cruz went negative. That it would have a positive effect for him and a negative effect for Cruz.

If Cruz had endorsed him it would have been a positive effect for both.

Either way, Trump wins.

Because Trump knew at this point those were the only real options. Nothing Cruz could have said, short of a major scandal that he could prove is true, would make one bit of difference.